Bolt Seared, again

It was Howard’s alleged barbarity to asylum seekers in particular that earned him the foulest abuse from people who showed none of the compassion they demanded from him. You know them and their kind, and how they luxuriated in abusing Howard.

“A man with the heart of a caraway seed,’’ jeered Mike Seccombe of the Sydney Morning Herald…

The then Labor president Carmen Lawrence even endorsed a Rock Against Howard CD with tracks such as John Howard is a Filthy Slut.

Pure Poison's number one Bolt obsessive begs to differ, producing this nastiness directed at Gillard:

Refugee advocate Pamela Curr said the Gillard government was “no better than the last”.

Jeez, it's no wonder Bolt takes no notice of the PP boyz (and Sear in particular) – not only is Curr's observation tepid, the last government was the Rudd government, not the Howard government.

Anyway, Sear sees evil just about everywhere he looks, even refusing to shop at furniture giant Ikea, which he describes as "my idea of hell", fearing that he will enter the store never to emerge.

Really, it's hard to take his incessant whining seriously.

Update A number of Pure Poison posts, including the one linked above, have gone missing. Shenanigans or technical issues? Stay tuned. (By the way, the cached post linked above, while it lasts, is here.)

To be fair, Anon 7:59 and the Anon on the earlier thread, if they had some sort of massive failure they might have had to roll back a day or two to get up & running again.

Their well-known habit of sneakily sending inconvenient comments and even whole posts "down the memory hole" notwithstanding, even dishonest jerks sometimes have system failures.

But back to the subject, how is Pure Poison any different than any of the earlier incarnations of BoltWatch? Bolt writes something; the BoltWatchers jump in with a reflexive "Nuh-HUH, Dolt is TEH STOOPID, and also RACIST. Also, Murdoch!" "PWNED!!!!!"

With so many of Crikey's comments (which have now conveniently disappeared without notice) making wild claims about a case which is sub judice (the aborigines' case against Bolt), I wouldn't doubt that a grown-up had to step in.

They also refuse to publish any serious questions about what's happened. They may be in discussion with their solicitors. And not the Jezza-type solicitors.

Ironic, since one post they are notorious for having "disappeared" a while ago was a mandated apology to Bolt (one of the three or so they have had to make).

Yes it looks strange Spot that other Crikey posts are still up, it's mainly the Pure Posions posts and comments which all got disappeared, if it was a server problem and rollback then you would expect ALL contemporary Crikey posts to be gone, but that is not so.

Also as mentioned earlier first the comments started disappearing, then the posts one by one, and not even in order of when they had been posted (I think the 'Open Thread' was the first to go right after some really Bolt-deranged comments from "thirdborn" and "mathew of canberra", then one by one others started going too, then the caches started disappearing as well!)

Its sweet of you to give them the benafit of the doubt but theres no reason to believe that this isn't just them getting themselves into trouble yet again for going TOO FAR.

Anon 10pm, isn't it amusing how on that blog post you mention, Jeremy Sear is careful to put big [SIC] tags in where he sees that others have made a typo, and then in his very next sentence he writes, "I’d have thought they might concentrate on a message to positively effect driver behaviour on the road"?

Anon 7:50am: Maybe in the panic to pull the legally-fraught PP Boyz pieces, they stuffed up something else? No way was that just a "system error" - the way the comments and then posts were disappearing, and then the caches were wiped, hints at something altogether familiar for the Boyz - over-reaching in their smears.

I still call shenanigans on the PP Boyz. It's too "convenient" the way comments and then posts disappeared, and then some posts were miraculously restored complete with comments yet others "unfortunately" lost the grubbiest and most deranged of the comments. And all the while, the main Crikey site was fine.

I say whichever Adult went into a panic over some of the trash that they'd gone ahead and published panicked, and hit the wrong button.

Existing Google caches only get deleted when you deliberately ask Google to delete them yet that's exactly what happened last night. One minute they were there, the next, wiped.

I still call shenanigans on the PP Boyz. It's too "convenient" the way comments and then posts disappeared, and then some posts were miraculously restored complete with comments yet others "unfortunately" lost the grubbiest and most deranged of the comments. And all the while, the main Crikey site was fine.